2019 Nov 04
The Once and Future Heart
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
For centuries, in both the arts and the sciences, the human heart has been a source of reverence and marvel. In this conversation, the artist Dario Robleto, whose exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute rethinks the deep history of cardiological recording, and Doris A. Taylor, a leading scientist in regenerative medicine, will discuss the surprising opportunities for both the arts and sciences to converge around new insights and questions of the human heart.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2019 Nov 04
Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli (Microcities / Socks-studio), "Inner Space"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
“Inner Space” is part of an ongoing research project into the construction of the architectural imagination which the authors have pursued in the last decade through different media. Through a website and a visual atlas (socks-studio.com), an architectural practice (Microcities), teaching activity and the curating of an exhibition at Lisbon Triennale 2019, the authors have set out to investigate the space between inner and outer reality, looking for those moments in which the two realms interact most vividly. This event is free and open to the public. 
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2019 Oct 31
Open House Lecture: Frida Escobedo, "Split Subject"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Please join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for an open house lecture, "Split Subject," with Frida Escobedo. 
Frida Escobedo is principal and founder of an architecture and design studio based in Mexico City. The projects produced at the studio operate within a theoretical framework that addresses time not as a historical calibration, but rather a social operation. This expanded temporal reading stems directly from Henri Bergson’s notion of ‘social time,’ and is articulated in conceptual works such as the El Eco Pavilion (2010), Split Subject (2013) and Civic Stage...
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2019 Oct 30
Lecture: Yael Bartana
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Please join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a lecture by Yael Bartana, marking the opening of the exhibition Love in a Mist (and the politics of Fertility), which will be on view in the Druker Design Gallery from October 28–December 20, 2019. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the gallery.
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2019 Oct 30
The Peril and Promise of Solar Geoengineering
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
Solar geoengineering research aims to reduce the impacts of global climate change. One possibility is to put aerosols into the stratosphere to alter Earth’s energy budget. This emerging technology entails risks and uncertainties, along with serious challenges to global governance. The greatest threat, perhaps, is that it will be used as a technical fix and encourage people to avoid the emissions cuts that are fundamental to curbing long-term climate risks.
Lecturer David Keith will describe the simple physics underlying the climate’s response to stratospheric aerosols, the...
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2019 Oct 30
Crafty Crows, Tropical Islands, and the Mystery of Human Technological Evolution
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
Professor of biology Christian Rutz will explain how New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows can shed light on the biological processes that allow rudimentary technologies to arise, advance, and diversify.
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2019 Oct 29
Anthropology, Colonialism, and the Exploration of Indigenous Australia
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
In 1938–1939, Harvard University funded an expedition to Australia aimed at understanding how colonization had affected Indigenous peoples and their physiology, and at informing government policy as it shifted from segregation to assimilation. Led by anthropologists Norman B. Tindale and Joseph Birdsell, the expedition gathered more than 6,000 individual records from Indigenous people on missions and settlements—records that have since inspired community-based research projects and land claims.
Lecturer Philip Jones will set the expedition within the context of anthropological...
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2019 Oct 28
Visiting Artist Lecture: Amy Mackle
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Amy Mackle. Amy Mackle is an Irish ceramic maker who creates predominantly large scale installations using coloured porcelains, earthenware clays and found materials. Her work is inspired by her sense of place, the landscape and the relationship between the natural and the manufactured in our environment.
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2019 Oct 28
Lecture: Productive Resurgences: The Garden of the 21st Century
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a public lecture with Teresa Galí-Izard. Galí-Izard is a landscape architect that translates the hidden potential of places, exploring new languages that integrate living systems into design. She seeks to find a contemporary answer that includes non-humans and their life forms through exploring climate, geology, natural processes, dynamics and management.
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2019 Oct 25
Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing
9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
Gene editing holds extraordinary promise but also raises serious legal and ethical issues. In this science symposium, leading scientists, clinicians, and ethicists will explore case studies of particular therapies and the legal and bioethical implications of gene editing.
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2019 Oct 22
Lecture: “The Challenge of Applying Theory to Planning Practice”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a public lecture with Susan Fainstein, Sai Balakrishnan, and Cuz Potter. They will discuss the challenges of applying theory to urban planning practice.
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2019 Oct 22
Visiting Artist Lecture: Deighton Abrams
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Deighton Abrams. Deighton is a ceramic sculptor, and educator. He has taught at numerous institutions including Clemson University and Winthrop University. He has shown work both nationally and internationally including the ISCAEE member Exhibition in Yixing, China and ArtFields 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina where he won a Merit Award for sculpture.
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2019 Oct 22
Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen: “Readymades Belong to Everyone: Thoughts on Exhibiting Architecture”
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen are directors of exhibitions at the Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Together they curated numerous international exhibitions on art and architecture including Readymades Belong to Everyone at the Swiss Institute in New York, Trix and Robert Haussmann at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and Nottingham Contemporary or Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse. A Retrospective at La Triennale di Milano (all 2018).
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2019 Oct 21
Voices of the Rainforest
6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Voices of the Rainforest is an experiential documentary about the ecological and aesthetic coevolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. The film immerses viewers in the rainforest, making myriad connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of the Bosavi people who sing to, with, and about it.
Following the screening, Steven Feld will discuss the film with Amahl Bishara, an associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University.
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2019 Oct 18
Aging in [a] Place: Planning, Design & Spatial Justice in Aging Societies
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Today, public discussion and policy focuses on “aging in place” as a way to improve quality of life and reduce costs. However, in part because of socioeconomic differences and structural inequalities, not all older adults can live in or move to age-supportive communities, neighborhoods, or homes that match their values and needs. Differences in access to places to age well can take the form of spatial inequalities, such as inadequate market rate housing for older adults on fixed incomes.
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2019 Oct 17
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Biomedical Analysis of Mummies and Canopic Jars
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
Egyptian mummies and the remains found in ancient canopic jars can now be studied in great detail using noninvasive medical imaging techniques such as X-rays and computerized tomography, and chemical analysis using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.
Drawing from interdisciplinary research conducted in the Valley of the Kings and Egyptian museum collections, Frank Rühli will discuss the value of using state-of-the-art technologies for understanding the life conditions, pathologies, death, and mummification procedures of ancient Egyptians. He will also address ethical...
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2019 Oct 17
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kelcy Chase Folsom
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard for a visiting artist lecture delivered by Kelcy Chase Folsom. Kelcy Chase Folsom received his MFA in Ceramics from University of Colorado Boulder and his BFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a resident artist at numerous residencies including the Center for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany, The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2019 Oct 17
Judy Chicago Research Portal Launch
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
This event is to celebrate the launch of a collaborative project, the Judy Chicago Research Portal, and to discuss the role of portals in providing access to feminist art archives.
The Judy Chicago Portal will be presented, challenges in the technology of portal development will be discussed, and Christina Schlesinger and Judy Chicago will discuss the importance of preserving feminist art archives.
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2019 Oct 16
Almost Lost Arts: Traditional Crafts and the Artisans Keeping Them Alive
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
What does it mean to be a maker, artist, or artisan in the twenty-first century? In her new book, Almost Lost Arts (Chronicle Books, 2019), Emily Freidenrich explores the work of twenty artisans from points worldwide who practice their craft using traditional techniques and analog technologies.
Three Boston-based artists who specialize in calligraphy and handmade signs will engage in a conversation with Freidenrich and museum curator Narayan Khandekar to discuss the rewards and challenges of using slow, intentional processes in a fast-paced digital world, and to...
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2019 Oct 11
Writing Black Lives
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.
Perry will consider her recent book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon Press, 2018), while Reid-Pharr and Brown-Nagin will share perspectives from their own research, writing, and forthcoming books on, respectively, James Baldwin and Constance Baker Motley.
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